Woman Charged With Stealing $100,000 From Employer

Friday

Apr 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM

Scalise was arrested at her home — 121 Wild Flower Drive in Lake Wales — and booked into the Polk County Jail.

By PHIL ATTINGERLEDGER MEDIA GROUP

LAKE WALES | Marcy Scalise, 48, of Lake Wales was arrested Thursday on charges of fraud, grand theft and money laundering to allegedly steal more than $100,000 from her employer.Scalise was arrested at her home — 121 Wild Flower Drive in Lake Wales — and booked into the Polk County Jail.She was released Friday morning on $40,000 bail.Her first court appearance is scheduled for May 7.According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the fraud occurred over the course of two years while Scalise was office manager at Orange ­Industrial Services Inc., an industrial cleaning supplies company with corporate offices in Davenport.An audit of the accounts showed that between Jan. 1, 2011, and Jan. 2, 2013, Scalise had stolen $186,943.27, arrest reports said.Orange Industrial CEO Roger Knaak said she was an employee for 11½ years — June 2001 to Jan. 3, when she was fired. Police reports said Scalise used a debit card for the company's bank account to make personal purchases at Wal-Mart, Publix and gas stations; buy high-end women's accessories and jewelry; make payments on her credit card accounts; make multiple ATM withdrawals and pay for vacations.When detectives questioned Scalise, she admitted to depositing money from a different company bank account into the main account to hide the theft, the report said.She has been charged with scheming to defraud more than $50,000, grand theft of more than $100,000, and two counts of money laundering of more than $20,000 and less than $100,000 within 12 months.

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